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Australopithecus by Studio Plastikart for the exhibition “La Fine del Mondo” (The End of the World), Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art, Prato 2016. Curated by Fabio Cavallucci. 2016

Current location: MUSE Trento. 2017

Australopithecus made by Studio Plastikart by Zimmermann & Amoroso. Scale 1:1. Platinum silicone rubber, polyurethane resin, musk ox hair. 2016, 16 October 2016—19 March 2017

Australopithecus made by Plastikart Studio. For “The End of the World”: inaugural exhibition of the new Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art, curated by Fabio Cavallucci. Prato, Italy, 2016, 16 October 2016—19 March 2017
The new Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art in Prato reopens on 16 October 2016, following the completion of the futuristic spaceship-shaped extension designed by Rotterdam-based architect Maurice Nio and the redevelopment of the original building by Italo Gamberini.
To mark its reopening, the Pecci Centre presents the exhibition The End of the World, curated by director Fabio Cavallucci with the collaboration of the in-house team and a large group of international advisors including Elena Agudio, Antonia Alampi, Luca Barni, Myriam Ben Salah, Marco Brizzi, Lorenzo Bruni, Jota Castro, Wlodek Goldkorn, Katia Krupennikova, Morad Montazami, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Giulia Poli, Luisa Santacesaria, Monika Szewczyk and Pier Luigi Tazzi.

Through the works of over 50 international artists and with an exhibition covering the entire 3,000 square metre exhibition space of the museum, the exhibition takes the form of a kind of exercise in distance, encouraging us to view our present from afar.
During the exhibition, visitors will experience the sensation of being projected a few thousand light years away, to see today’s world as if it were a fossil, geological eras away from the present, with the feeling of being suspended in limbo between a now distant past and a still distant future.

The end of the world is located within this limbo and, through works of different kinds, often to be traversed and physically experienced, in a succession of spaces and sounds, it draws us into a continuous, inevitable movement, a kind of loop, an eternal return that rhythmically distances us from and brings us back to the present, offering us new interpretations.

Artists: Adel Abdessemed, Jananne Al-Ani, Darren Almond, Giovanna Amoroso & Istvan Zimmermann Plastikart Studio, Anonymous artists from the Lower Palaeolithic period, Anonymous artist from the Upper Palaeolithic period, Aristide Antonas, Riccardo Arena, Kader Attia, Francis Bacon, Babi Badalov, Fayçal Baghriche, Francesco Bertelè, Rossella Biscotti, Björk, Umberto Boccioni, Kerstin Brätsch, Cai Guo-Qiang, Julian Charrière & Julius von Bismarck, Ali Cherri, Analivia Cordeiro, Isabelle Cornaro, Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, Hanne Darboven, Pippo Delbono, Marcel Duchamp, Marlene Dumas, Jimmie Durham, Olafur Eliasson, Federico Fellini, Didier Fiuza Faustino, Lucio Fontana, Carlos Garaicoa, Adalberto Giazotto, Arash Hanaei, Camille Henrot, Thomas Hirschhorn, Joakim, Polina Kanis, Tadeusz Kantor, Tigran Khachatryan, Robert Kusmirowski, Andrey Kuzkin, Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Suzanne Lacy, Ahmed Mater, Boris Mikhailov, NASA, Henrique Oliveira, Lydia Ourahmane, Pëtr Pavlensky, Gianni Pettena, Agnieszka Polska, Pablo Picasso, Pussy Riot / Taisiya Krugovykh, Qiu Zhijie, Józef Robakowski, Batoul S’Himi, Fari Shams, Santiago Sierra, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Luis Urculo, Emmanuel Van der Auwera, Ekaterina Vasilyeva & Hanna Zubkova, Andy Warhol, Ingrid Wildi Merino, Andrzej Wróblewski, Alik Yakubovich, David Zink Yi